Man Plans, God Laughs and I Still Keep On Planning
A very late update for this month. I’m not surprised this happened. I had plans and had planned do the #The100DayProjects and, of course, Things Went Wrong. “Man Plans and God Laughs” and all that. It seems like, despite my best efforts, my plans get derailed everything I make them. This time, it was due to a mixture of various flare-ups (e.g., very, very bad pain) and being forced to use more energy than my body can produce (leading to consequences, i.e., flare-up/crash).
I don’t know if I’ll update my progress I’ve done for the #The100DayProject on this blog, but I will have weekly updates posted here (link). For anyone who’s interested, my primary focus will probably be working on zines, with the occasional additional project (e.g., fiction writing project) sprinkled in here and there when possible. Wish me luck— I fully expect life to laugh and derail any and all plans I attempt to do because why would this time be any different?
Anyway, this month’s zine. Despite the late post, I managed to release it on my Ko-Fi store on time! Yay! This month’s zine discusses a type of food insecurity I rarely see discussed: physical food insecurity— or when the issue has more to do with the physical aspect of food rather than, for example, the financial aspect (e.g., you can afford food, but can’t prepare it). Food preparation is one of the many ADLs I struggle with and/or just cannot do due to disability and most tips and suggestions one is typically given just won’t work for me and my situation— for more detail as for what I mean by this, check out this month’s zine (wink wink nudge nudge— am I doing self-promotion right? I feel like both am and am not). In it, I don’t really provide any specific solutions, as much as I wish I could, but I’m hoping someone else in a similar situation to mine sees it and feels a little less alone.
Unrelated to all this: I saw Iron Lung last month. I really, really enjoyed it! Might make a zine about it and the absurdist (philosophy by Camus) vibes it gave me. It reminded me a bit of The Plague (by Albert Camus) in that regard. We’ll see if time (and health) allows it.